WK&T Moves Corporate Office to Technology Park

West Kentucky and Tennessee Telecommunications is in the process of moving its offices from downtown Mayfield to their new administration building on the former Mid-Continent University campus. It is the first step in developing the campus into a technology park. 

Karen Jackson-Furman, Chief Operating Officer for WK&T, stressed that for now, customers will still go to the Cuba Road location for products and services.

"The Customer Service Center in Mayfield - where actually customers go to the retail store to work with Customer Service Representatives - that's all staying where it's at for now. This is just the administration building that's moving out here this week," she said. 

Jackson-Furman said several other buildings are available to rent on the campus. She said the close proximity of the new I-69 and the site's state-of-the-art connectivity would be a great home for other technology companies.

Bill Bartleman, Director of Special Projects for WK&T, said they hope others will join them.

Bartleman said, "This is a project to help the entire region. If we can develop this into the high-tech park like we envision, it would be an investment of somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-60 million , create maybe at least 1,000 jobs directly and 300-400 jobs indirectly, and these would be high-paying jobs. Again, it would be a big asset for the region."

Workers began moving the administrative offices on Wednesday and will continue Thursday.